This is Dave Edstrom's personal blog called Photons and Electrons. This blog is about technology, as well as some of my personal interests. I am the CEO/CTO of Virtual Photons Electrons. I was the CTO for MEMEX for three years, the President and Chairman of the Board for the MTConnect Institute from May 2010 to January 2014 and prior to that I spent 23 years at Sun Microsystems.

Monday, August 26, 2013

This was a very, very special Corvettes at Carlisle for a number of reasons:

60th anniversary of the first Corvette

50th anniversary of the first Corvette Stingray

Announcement of the new C7 Corvette Stingray

My lovely bride of 30 years came along to keep me from buying a 3rd Corvette :) Plus, we left there to go have dinner with our son Michael at VT that evening, then went on to Dandridge TN to spend the weekend at Lake Douglas with Julie's aunt and uncle. We took the 2011 Grand Sport I own that got 27mpg on the highway, which is not bad for 445hp and 325/30 tires on the rear.

This is my favorite color of what they currently have in 2014 which is called crystal red.

Above is me with Kirk Bennion of GM who designed the Corvette Stingray! Kirk gave me a Stingray pin that is typically for Corvette team members who actually work at GM which I thought was very cool.

Above is me with Tadge Juechter of GM who is Chief Engineer for the Corvette Stingray! I spoke with Tadge for 15 minutes without any interruptions which is incredible amount of time with an industry legend.

They have lots of seminars in the GM Engineers Tent (which is where I tend to hang around).

Above I am talking with Jason - who designed the Corvette Stingray's

Above is the cutaway of the Corvette Stingray which is always fascinating to look at.

Below is the C6R race car that has been kicking butt and taking names in the GT2 class and previously the GT1 class prior to 2009.

Above are the rows of the most famous Corvette of all time - the 1963 split window Coupe.

Above is the famous knockoff wheel on the C2 Corvettes (1963-1967).

Below is the partial view from the hill at Corvettes at Carlisle in 2013.

About Dave Edstrom

This is Dave Edstrom's personal blog called Photons and Electrons. This is the same name of the blog I had for Sun Microsystems for many years. I am the CEO/CTO for Virtual Photons Electrons, LLC. More info is available at http://VirtualPhotonsElectrons.com I was the CTO for MEMEX for almost three years. More information on MEMEX is at http://MemexOEE.com